RUMORED BUZZ ON LOPHOPHORA PLANTS

A different historical milestone is the discovery of DMT in plants usually employed by Amazonian natives as additive towards the vine Banisteriopsis caapi to make ayahuasca decoctions. In 1957, American chemists Francis Hochstein and Anita Paradies identified DMT within an "aqueous extract" of leaves of a plant they named Prestonia amazonicum [sic]